Changing the Climate Change Narrative

A challenge to our obsession with climate change at the expense of all other values.

What would happen if we revalued the local, the immediate, the qualitative, the living, and the beautiful? We would still oppose most of what climate change activists oppose, but for different reasons.

Photo by Flickr/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

It doesn’t mean that climate change isn’t dangerous or that humans aren’t causing it, but it does suggest that our approach to the problem could be strengthening the psychic and ideological substructure of the system that is devouring the planet.